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Researchers Identify 'Master Problem' Underlying All Cryptography
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Researchers Identify 'Master Problem' Underlying All Cryptography

The existence of secure cryptography depends on one of the oldest questions in computational complexity.

A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption
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A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption

August 11, the National Security Agency updated an obscure page on its website with an announcement that it plans to shift the encryption of government and military...

Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
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Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease

Stefan Thurner is a physicist, not a biologist. But not long ago, the Austrian national health insurance clearinghouse asked Thurner and his colleagues at the Medical...

Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense

As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...
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